Mozilla's web browser Firefox is becoming increasingly popular, gaining on average an extra 3.1 percent of the market in 32 European countries in the past four months, according to French web monitoring company XiTi Monitor. Since its launch, Firefox has been steadily gaining market share from the dominant browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). In the first week of July 2006, Firefox had 21.1 percent of the market. In the first week of July 2007, Firefox held 27.8 percent of the European market, according to XiTi Monitor's report.
"It's a nice way to get started on a Monday morning," said Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe. "I hope we continue to gain market share, as our goal is to promote choice. Monopoly leads to lack of innovation."
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"It's a nice way to get started on a Monday morning," said Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe. "I hope we continue to gain market share, as our goal is to promote choice. Monopoly leads to lack of innovation."
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They said for v3, but I doubt it.
So true, if it had not been for Firefox, IE7 would not of happened so quickly or been available for Windows XP.
but i dont think ill switch from Firefox to IE anytime soon.
You're right. But because FF is standards non-compliant, the more this plague spreads the more it slows down data-driven innovations in web. When FF was 2% I could happily make my standards-based XML web sites and not mind FF's proprietary plague. Now I cannot. Bye-bye innovation.
You're right. But because FF is standards non-compliant, the more this plague spreads the more it slows down data-driven innovations in web. When FF was 2% I could happily make my standards-based XML web sites and not mind FF's proprietary plague. Now I cannot. Bye-bye innovation.
You're right. But because FF is standards non-compliant, the more this plague spreads the more it slows down data-driven innovations in web. When FF was 2% I could happily make my standards-based XML web sites and not mind FF's proprietary plague. Now I cannot. Bye-bye innovation.
You're right. But because FF is standards non-compliant, the more this plague spreads the more it slows down data-driven innovations in web. When FF was 2% I could happily make my standards-based XML web sites and not mind FF's proprietary plague. Now I cannot. Bye-bye innovation.
Huh? FF isn't perfect, but it's a lot more standards compliant than IE6, which is what the majority would have been using when FF was at 2%.
You're right. But because FF is standards non-compliant, the more this plague spreads the more it slows down data-driven innovations in web. When FF was 2% I could happily make my standards-based XML web sites and not mind FF's proprietary plague. Now I cannot. Bye-bye innovation.
http://www.webdevout.net/browser-support-summary
looks to me like it's the most standards compliant (win) browser out there, opera a close second.
safari has major problems before people start throwing that in, and firefox 3 alphas pass the acid2 test for those that care about that.
Hopefully FF 3.0 will reduce the memory it needs though.
It's not a memory leak, it's just caching your web pages in memory so they can be reloaded faster.
Opera manages it without using a shed load of memory.
firefox almost has a 30% market share, and now linux distros like ubunto are becoming increasingly popular.
Just get it to look good on Vista, and implemented a protected mode....
now ie7 for xp it feel sluggish (but in vista it run very fast)
But those news doesen't trurn me to firefox ,my main browser still is IE7,don't need more
So this is the best thing that can happen. People really have the choice. People are really free.
Too bad that FF is killing the new generation XML standards-based web. Just like IE did with HTML in the old days.
Care to elaborate?
Too bad that FF is killing the new generation XML standards-based web. Just like IE did with HTML in the old days.
as far as I know both FF and IE are pretty good at xml/xsl, don't know what you are talking about
But, to each his own and whatever floats your boat!!
That's all I want to say. And the competition like always, makes more options. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad, in this case it's more good than bad thing.
IE7 desperately needs improvements too. I would kill for decent Javascript error messages. "Syntax error" on non-existing line 1 character 36 is pretty annoying to track.
That's probably more a problem with your ISP or with the websites ypu're trying to load. I've never had a real problem with FF.
Do we seriously need to keep reposting the same story over and over and over.
We get it Firefox good, IE bad.
Give it a rest.
now the same happens to Firefox, but it seems that Firefox users are as blind as IE users were in the past ...
IE: more evil
Firefox: less evil
Opera: no evil ... choose yourself
I wish Opera had adopted add-ons similar to Firefox instead of going with the awkward widgets. The ad blocker in Opera could also use some work. It's a good idea (allowing you to click what you want to block instead of right clicking on every ad and editing the rule) but the problem is that it doesn't seem to work with things like iframes, flash ads etc. Hopefully the upcoming 9.5 version will bring improvements in this area, considering it's supposed to be a UI/feature improvement type thing instead of just bug- and compatibility fixes.
yes you are wrong, as of ie7 the windows shell (explorer) and internet explorer are two completely different things. All the controls IE uses must be loaded into it's process space and therefore show up when you look at the memory usage
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